Teen confesses to Florida school shooting


Nikolas Cruz making a video appearance in Broward County court before judge Kim Theresa Mollica, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, yesterday. Cruz is facing 17 charges of premeditated murder in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. – EPA pic, February 16, 2018.

A TROUBLED teen with alleged ties to a white supremacist group yesterday confessed to murdering 17 people at his former high school in Florida, as the FBI admitted it had received a tip-off about the 19-year-old gunman yet failed to stop him.

As Americans reeled from the country’s worst school massacre since the horror at Sandy Hook six years ago, President Donald Trump suggested the root cause of the violence was a crisis of mental health – and defied calls to address gun control.


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